Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake struck»

Posted: 9/17/2015 On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 18:54:33 ET, an 8.3 - magnitude earthquake struck Chile triggering other earthquake related incidents including tsunami waves in Hawaii and Southern California.

As you can see, it wasn't so long ago that a high magnitude earthquake struck Indiana.

Yesterday, a 7.4 - magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico, destroying homes, and sending at least 11 people to the hospital.

A tsunami was generated after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:17 p.m. Eastern time beneath the sea near the volcanic eruption in waters near Tonga.

After the 7.8 - magnitude earthquake struck on April 25, initial reports indicated at least 19 hydro facilities were affected.

In 1960, a 9.5 - magnitude earthquake struck Chile, after which the country embarked on a massive earthquake - safety program and enforcing new building codes.

Firefighters gather near the damaged Sant «Agostino church in the central Italian village of Amatrice on 26 August, 2016, three days after a 6.2 - magnitude earthquake struck the region.

It was partially damaged when a 7.2 - magnitude earthquake struck Bohol and other parts of Central Visayas last October 15, 2013.

A massive 8.8 - magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile over the weekend killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless.

All from New Zealand's original Live coverage; Two people are dead after a massive magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand, sparking a tsunami warning, cutting off towns and leaving

When the 7.0 - magnitude earthquake struck, computer models predicted that a tsunami would hit the nation's south shore — but with a height of just 20 centimeters, said Fritz.

A 5.0 - magnitude earthquake struck near Cushing, Oklahoma, this evening (Nov. 6) at 7:44 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

When the now - infamous 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's capital of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010, the entire country's transportation system, government, and economy, ground to a halt.

When the now - infamous 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's capital of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010, the entire...

It's been six years since a 7.0 - magnitude earthquake struck Haiti — killing more than 160,000 people and crippling an already vulnerable economy.

Not exact matches

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the off the coast of Indonesia.

QUITO (Reuters)- Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast on Wednesday, causing minor injuries and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8 tremor killed more than 650 people last month.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, red ash rises from the Puu Oo vent on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano after a magnitude - 5.0 earthquake struck the Big Island, Thursday, May 3, 2018 in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

By: Henry Lazenby 24th April 2018 Canadian mining major Barrick Gold's Porgera Joint Venture mine, in Papua New Guinea, is still operating at only 25 % of capacity following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the island on February 26, the company announced on Monday in its first - quarter earnings release.

Emergencies and disasters, and less urgent natural changes and challenges, the preparation for them, the response to them, underscore the need for good science policy connections at the local and national levels,» added Holt, referencing the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck central Mexico, including Mexico City, on Sept. 19 and the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico's Pacific Coast two weeks earlier.

The biggest earthquake ever recorded in Oklahoma struck on November 5, a magnitude 5.6 temblor that buckled a highway and ruptured water pipes.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

No one really understood how the loose landfill would react to major earthquakes until 1985, when a magnitude - 8 quake struck the coast along the same plate boundary as Tuesday's quake.

They had hit a series of parallel cracks, remnants of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the year before.

The alarm warned of an increased risk of an earthquake larger than magnitude 5.0 striking Oklahoma.

The magnitude - 9.0 earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on 11 March trashed Koji Tamura's laboratory and office, flinging books, microscopes, sequencers and samples to the floor.

And the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck northeast Japan in March 2011 unleashed the equivalent of more than 15,000 Hiroshima bombs.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on 11 March 2011 and the 40 - meter tsunami that followed left 15,893 dead and 2572 missing, destroyed 127,290 buildings, and damaged more than a million more.

The findings also confirm that the entire area of the Himalayas is capable of producing large earthquakes like the magnitude - 7.8 quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off Santa Cruz Island, part of the Solomon Islands, in the southwest Pacific Ocean February 6 at 12:12 p.m. local time.

Their results, published December 5 in Science, show that friction on the fault was remarkably low during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011 and triggered a devastating tsunami.

On 1 April 2011, Blackpool, UK, was struck by a magnitude 2.3 earthquake that was clearly the result of fracking.

Two journalists combine history, science and storytelling to recount the experiences of those who experienced the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its aftermath

The tsunami formed March 11, 2011, triggered by an earthquake of 9.0 moment magnitude that struck Japan the same day.

The study focused specifically on a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck coastal Ecuador in April 2016, coinciding with an exceptionally strong El Niño event.

The Met Office said on Sunday a magnitude 5.3 earthquake at 5 kilometres (3 miles) depth had struck after midnight while another, with a magnitude of about 5, had occurred some five hours later.

(Reuters)- A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Sunday morning, triggering a tsunami warning that was later cancelled, according to U.S. government agencies, and there were no immediate reports of damage.

So after a 9.0 - magnitude earthquake and tsunami waves struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant on 11 March 2011, it was no wonder that one of Asimo's fans tweeted, «Can't Asimo be dispatched to survey the interior of Unit 4, where radiation is too high for human workers?»

If a massive earthquake strikes near one of the heavily populated cities in the Ganges Plain, however, «such an estimate may be too low by an order of magnitude.

In science news around the world this week, public health officials in South Wales are trying to contain a measles outbreak; questions are still spinning around the legality of a geoengineering experiment conducted last summer in international waters; a magnitude - 6.6 earthquake struck below the surface of Ya'an, China; and more.

With a magnitude of 7.8, it was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal - Bihar earthquake.

JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters)- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck the coast of Alaska early on Friday, shaking people awake in the capital Juneau and cutting off some communications in the southeast part of the state, officials said.

The South Napa earthquake was the largest earthquake to strike the greater San Francisco Bay Area since the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, damaging residential and commercial buildings from Brown's Valley through historic downtown Napa.

After the strong earthquake that struck Chile on April 2 (CEST), numerous aftershocks, some of them of a considerable magnitude, have struck the region around Iquique.

A magnitude - 8.3 earthquake that struck deep between Russia and Japan on May 24 released most of its energy in four major shocks, all within 30 seconds, rather than within days or weeks

A truck trapped in a spot of liquefied ground near Christchurch, New Zealand, after a magnitude - 5.8 earthquake struck the city in 2011.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck Turkey yesterday, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands.

A high - magnitude earthquake in Japan, one notion goes, might redistribute stress in Earth's crust, subsequently triggering another temblor in the following months or years — a quake that could even strike as far away as the western shores of the U.S..

So when he heard on April 25 that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake had struck near Gorkha, Nepal, not far from Kathmandu, he thought he knew what to expect — utter devastation throughout Kathmandu and a death toll in the hundreds of thousands.

LONDON (Reuters)- A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Colombia on Monday, 75 miles west southwest of Arauca, the U.S. Geological Survey said.